'I Literally Don't Know a Word You're Saying': Anderson Cooper Mystified by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Full title: ‘I Literally Don’t Know a Word You’re Saying’: Anderson Cooper Mystified by Neil deGrasse Tyson During Artemis Crew Recovery

NASA picked up the crew one at a time and flew them via helicopter to a nearby U.S. Navy vessel. During CNN’s coverage of the recovery, Cooper, Tyson, and other guests listened to a NASA live feed explaining what they were seeing via a camera aboard the USS John P. Murtha.

“Big hugs, big hugs from Victor, Christina,” a woman on NASA’s live feed said.

At that point, Tyson jumped in.

“By the way, right now we’re near solar maximum,” he said. “So, the total radiative flux and particle flux of the sun is at an 11-year high. So that’s gotta be part of what this medical understanding is in terms of their exposure to the radiation and their 10 days going around the moon without the protection of Earth’s magnetic blanket.”

“I literally don’t know a word you’re saying,” Cooper replied, to laughs all around.

“He’s saying they got zapped,” former astronaut Mike Massimono chimed in.

“I am not smart enough to understand,” Cooper said.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/literally-don-t-know-word-033805474.html

[SWBTATTReg]

1. I understood it immediately. Anderson C. disappoints me

[erronis]

2. People like Anderson Cooper spend 99% of their time immersed in political news

They don't have time to smell the roses - or to appreciate science, mathematics, medicine, arts, literature, etc.

I'm guessing 95% of the people I deal with wouldn't understand "solar maximum" either. They might have a concept of the solar wind from high school but it isn't on their daily news feeds (CNN or Fox or whatever.)

[Bluetus]

6. He was just being self-deprecating

which is probably a wise move when you are around a bunch of rocket scientists and astro-physicists.

That was a diplomatic way for Cooper to say "Can you explain that in a way our audience could understand?"

[Srkdqltr]

3. They want to be seen as stupid. People like them better. Thats awful.

[underpants]

4. That's funny.

[sop]

5. 'What 10 days of space travel could mean for Artemis astronauts' health'

"Astronauts are exposed to high-energy radiation in space, unlike on Earth, where the atmosphere and planetary magnetic field provide a shield against it...This can lead to DNA damage, increased cancer risk, neurodegenerative effects, cardiovascular issues and immune system dysregulation, experts say."

"The International Space Station (ISS), where astronauts spend much of their time, is somewhat protected from radiation by Earth's magnetosphere, as it's around 250 miles away...But the further you go into space, the more radiation you get exposed to, says Dr Haig Aintablian, director of space medicine at UCLA...'Once you go beyond low Earth orbit, you lose much of the protection of Earth's magnetic field,' he tells Sky News, adding radiation is one of the 'real challenges' deep space poses."

https://news.sky.com/story/what-10-days-of-space-travel-could-mean-for-artemis-astronauts-health-13530012

[3Hotdogs]

7. In other words, If Elon decides to go to Mars, he might end up with cancer?

[Biophilic]

8. Good grief. He's just doing his job.

His job is to keep the viewers involved and actively engaged with what’s going on. Otherwise they change the channel.

[mitch96]

9. ""He's saying they got zapped," ...yup. that's it in a nut shell. NGT makes things a bit complicated.

If you don't know what flux is or solar flux is, your in the dark with his definition.
"Solar flux is the amount of electromagnetic energy (power) radiated by the Sun that passes through a unit area". In this case the human body...
Dealing with a tv audience he could have said "they got zapped"..
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[timms139]

11. Yea like Trump has

fluxed America . Zapped Lady Liberty .

[RockRaven]

10. I do not care for this self-deprecating line of talk, because it gives the audience

the notion that they needn't understand or needn't seek remedying lack of understanding, when in reality any person who would have an opinion on government spending for manned space exploration should understand the basics of this general topic before forming an opinion on that government spending (relevant concerns are broader than that, of course, I'm just limiting the scope of my point to the government/politics bailiwick of cable "news" channels).

The "ha ha I so stoopid" crap does the audience and the country a disservice. Anyone can understand the basics with minimal time/effort or ability, and should.